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Robbie01Robbie01 Posts: 10,456
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I'm trying - and so far failing miserably - to touch type. It's harder than I thought it would be.

OK, it's time to show off - if you can do it!

The reply you make to this post, type while looking at the screen without looking at the keyboard and then hit the reply button.

I was looking at the keyboard when I posted this by the way, so I was cheating ;)

Give it a go!
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 2,334
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    I can touch-type anyway. :p
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    FortyTwo25FortyTwo25 Posts: 5,170
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    I can type withour lookingf at the keyboard

    EDIT: Could've ben worse

    EDIT2: I was looking at the keyboard then :o
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    RellyRelly Posts: 3,469
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    A_Zombie wrote: »
    I can touch-type anyway. :p

    Same - it was how I was trained, on old manual typewriters nearly 30 years ago. I must admit, I'm a bit more lazy in recent years, but I don't do much typing anymore.
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    Robbie01Robbie01 Posts: 10,456
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    A_Zombie wrote: »
    I can touch-type anyway. :p
    That's cheating!

    Oh, I managed to do that!

    Not bad!
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    2+2=52+2=5 Posts: 24,264
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    Touch typing isn't difficult, it just takes a bit of practise. The more you practise the easier it becomes. I wish I'd learned to do it properly (all fingers touching the keyboard at the same time), but I ended up getting faster and finding it easier not to look at the keyboard with only my two index fingers, the thumbs for the space bar, and the 3rd finger on the right hand for the delete key!
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 2,334
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    Typing with my eyes closed.
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    turquoiseblueturquoiseblue Posts: 2,431
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    I can touch type. :cool:
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 11,313
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    2+2=5 wrote: »
    Touch typing isn't difficult, it just takes a bit of practise. The more you practise the easier it becomes. I wish I'd learned to do it properly (all fingers touching the keyboard at the same time), but I ended up getting faster and finding it easier not to look at the keyboard with only my two index fingers, the thumbs for the space bar, and the 3rd finger on the right hand for the delete key!

    I touch type, always have done. I get confused if looking at the keyboard. My fingers know where the letters are if my eyes don't. And no, I didn't look at the keyboard once writing this :p
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    LushnessLushness Posts: 38,187
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    I can touch type, I can do about 55-60wpm these days. When I used to do a lot of typing it was quite a bit more...

    Practice makes perfect.
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    Pull2OpenPull2Open Posts: 15,138
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    I can touch type when I don't think about it but as soon as I realise I am doing it I start going wrong! It dawned on me a few years ago when I was writing reports for my job that I could copy my notes without looking at the screen or keyboard.
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    Robbie01Robbie01 Posts: 10,456
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    A_Zombie wrote: »
    Typing with my eyes closed.
    Here's my attempt at typing the same ("typing with my eyes closed")

    Typih woyj u eies c;;soed

    ^
    They're back open now. Nope, that didn't work very well!
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 348
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    I assumed most people could touch type apart from the oldies.
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    Serial LurkerSerial Lurker Posts: 10,763
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    When I used to work in an office the receptionist could touch type. She'd be typing away while looking at you and having a conversation, I found it quite unnerving to be honest.
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    muggins14muggins14 Posts: 61,844
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    I can touch type; it's harder actually looking at the keyboard :D Even worse, most of the keys are rubbed blank from use on my keyboard, so if I look it really confuses me lol
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    muggins14muggins14 Posts: 61,844
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    jazziee wrote: »
    I assumed most people could touch type apart from the oldies.
    Hahaha :D Many oldies, as you put it, learned to touch type many years ago, on typewriters. I wouldn't dream of looking at the keyboard whilst typing.

    You young people think you invented typing? :D
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    RellyRelly Posts: 3,469
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    Jazziee, touch typing is how people were trained years ago, so us oldies will be able to, rather than be the exception. Secretaries copy-type, which is what Pull2Open us describing. Nowadays, youngsters learn to type from being on Facebook and fora all the time, or learning to code. I know my kids did. They're very fast at typing as well, but they can't touch-type.

    Edit: Muggins, snap. :D

    Edit again: :o I actually remember having seriously strong hands back in the days of manual typewriters! Getting your little fingers to bash down the A and semicolon keys with the same pressure as the other fingers was a challenge at first. :D
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    Serial LurkerSerial Lurker Posts: 10,763
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    I think I van sort of touch type, bur no veru well,

    That's my attempt.
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    Bex_123Bex_123 Posts: 10,783
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    I touch type. If I'm ever posting on here in the middle of the night, I'll be typing in the dark. It's improved my typing :D
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 307
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    jazziee wrote: »
    I assumed most people could touch type apart from the oldies.

    As one of the oldies I'm not sure why you thought that? Anyone who learned to touch-type before word processors were common had to be accurate first time (and also be able to spell - no spellcheckers in those days!). I taught myself to type while at uni and have found it useful ever since.
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    jazziee wrote: »
    I assumed most people could touch type apart from the oldies.

    I'm 25. As "one of the oldies", I can touch-type. :p
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    Robbie01Robbie01 Posts: 10,456
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    jazziee wrote: »
    I assumed most people could touch type apart from the oldies.
    That's probably why I can't do it :cry:
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    xorosetylerxoxorosetylerxo Posts: 6,674
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    I can touch type I'm doing this without looking

    :)
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    Bex_123Bex_123 Posts: 10,783
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    A_Zombie wrote: »
    I'm 25. As "one of the oldies", I can touch-type. :p

    You so cannot be 'one of the oldies' at 25 :p
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    CryolemonCryolemon Posts: 8,670
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    I can kind of do it for a short amount of time, although I usually have to look every now and then. I actually touch typed this post, except for the initial "I"...
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    muggins14muggins14 Posts: 61,844
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    Relly wrote: »
    Jazziee, touch typing is how people were trained years ago, so us oldies will be able to, rather than be the exception. Secretaries copy-type, which is what Pull2Open us describing. Nowadays, youngsters learn to type from being on Facebook and fora all the time, or learning to code. I know my kids did. They're very fast at typing as well, but they can't touch-type.

    Edit: Muggins, snap. :D

    Edit again: :o I actually remember having seriously strong hands back in the days of manual typewriters! Getting your little fingers to bash down the A and semicolon keys with the same pressure as the other fingers was a challenge at first. :D
    Young people are so funny aren't they, most of the modern technology in use today was thought of, created, invented by people much older than them, many of them so old that they are long dead :D

    edit: Remember the old Adler typewriters, god they were hard to press down :D
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